Sid Meier's Pirates on Rogue and snuck into Montalban's hideaway through his native Indian hoard (Squad wise, outnumbered 2.5:1) and got my ass handed to me in a flash. My character aged 20 years and Monty hasn't aged a day and has only gotten faster. Dude's a ninja, and I only got through the land battle by guile, stealth, sacrifice and terrain advantage. It's nearly impossible to win at this point as to get more pirates means sailing away from Vera Cruz, which in Piratical Mexico is the ass end of the Caribbean and to age my pirate any further would mean that the sword fight would be tougher than killing all the Mexicans directly.

I could restart and immediately gun for his ass but 32 hours man. That's a lot of pirate time for a game like this. And my guy was getting his mack on with a beautiful French babe with enough coinage to buy half the Caribbean.

Damnit HK I wanna play Sid Meier's Pirates now! I've been playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I just beat Barrett but I had to turn the difficulty down to do so because all I had was a fucking pistol and 3 rockets and the rocket launcher.

Been playing Shadowrun Returns (still) and taking occasional breaks from it to play Hitman Absolution.

I'm still not sure what to think of Absolution. I like seeing Agent 47 again but a lot of the changes they made make it not feel very much like a Hitman game. It has its moments but I still think the series peaked at Silent Assassin.

More Shadowrun Returns. Buffing my shotgun toting/cybered to the gills Elven Decker by running through the Dead Mans Switch campaign a second time. I haven't maxed out his overall ranged combat skill or even specialized his shotgun skill at all and he's already way overpowered. After this I'll be running him through some of the UGC campaigns. A few really promising looking ones are coming out already including "Unlimited" which is very open world and has randomly generated runs. The UGC should keep me satisfied until the Berlin campaign comes out. (Free DLC ftw!)

Also picked up the Shadow Warrior Redux/Duke Nukem 3D megaton pack because it was on sale. Nostalgia... Will probably play a bit of both this weekend. I remember having the first episode shareware demo for Shadow Warrior way back when but the only part of it that sticks in my memory was you could get a nuke launcher and if you killed somone with a sword Lo Wang would sometimes shout "There can be only one!"

And speaking of nostalgia, I picked up the Quake collection when it was on sale last weekend because I never owned a legal copy of Q2 or Q3 on PC and I have no idea what happened to my Q1 disc. Graphically it's a bit harsh going back to these but people are still cranking out mods and high definition texture packs so I need to get my hands on those I seriously cannot keep track of how many hours of my life I spent playing Q1 and Q2.

After this I'll be running him through some of the UGC campaigns. A few really promising looking ones are coming out already including "Unlimited" which is very open world and has randomly generated runs. The UGC should keep me satisfied until the Berlin campaign comes out. (Free DLC ftw!)

Thanks for the references, I'll check this campaigns and keep Berlin under my radar

And speaking of nostalgia, I picked up the Quake collection when it was on sale last weekend because I never owned a legal copy of Q2 or Q3 on PC and I have no idea what happened to my Q1 disc. Graphically it's a bit harsh going back to these but people are still cranking out mods and high definition texture packs so I need to get my hands on those I seriously cannot keep track of how many hours of my life I spent playing Q1 and Q2.

Q3 Arena has not that bad graphics ! We still played it a lot with my former flatmates, tons of fun